Morrisons is set to become the highest paying UK supermarket for store staff after announcing a new hourly wage deal.
Morrisons is set to pay its store and manufacturing colleagues a minimum of £10.20 an hour, a minimum 2% increase on their base rate, making it the highest paying UK supermarket for store colleagues.
In addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a London location supplement of £0.85 per hour to all stores within the M25 – rather than just Inner London – taking the minimum rate of pay for store colleagues within the M25 to £11.05.
The new deal is planned to start in October 2022, and means that since 2014 the hourly pay rate for Morrisons store Customer Assistants has gone from £6.83 per hour to £10.20, an increase of more than 40%.
Eighteen months ago, Morrisons became the first UK supermarket to break the £10 an hour barrier for store Customer Assistants and today’s announcement means a further pay increase for over 80,000 Morrisons colleagues.
The new rate of pay is the latest in a range of benefits aimed at rewarding and thanking colleagues for the important work that they do. Other benefits now available to all colleagues include: an unlimited 15% colleague discount – introduced during Covid to show our thanks to frontline staff and maintained to help colleagues with cost of living increases; two 10% family and friends discounts; a competitive pension; excellent holiday allowance; and, industry leading long service rewards.
